most citedA Call for Critically Rethinking and Reforming Data Analysis in Empirical Software Engineering

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cs.SE2026

A Defect is Being Born: How Close Are We? A Time Sensitive Forecasting Approach

Mikel Robredo, Matteo Esposito, Fabio Palomba +2

Background. Defect prediction has been a highly active topic among researchers in the Empirical Software Engineering field. Previous literature has successfully achieved the most a…

cs.SE2025

SQuaD: The Software Quality Dataset

Mikel Robredo, Matteo Esposito, Davide Taibi +2

Software quality research increasingly relies on large-scale datasets that measure both the product and process aspects of software systems. However, existing resources often focus…

cs.SE20252 cited

What Were You Thinking? An LLM-Driven Large-Scale Study of Refactoring Motivations in Open-Source Projects

Mikel Robredo, Matteo Esposito, Fabio Palomba +2

Context. Code refactoring improves software quality without changing external behavior. Despite its advantages, its benefits are hindered by the considerable cost of time, resource…

cs.SE2025

Autonomic Microservice Management via Agentic AI and MAPE-K Integration

Matteo Esposito, Alexander Bakhtin, Noman Ahmad +4

While microservices are revolutionizing cloud computing by offering unparalleled scalability and independent deployment, their decentralized nature poses significant security and m…

cs.SE20252 cited

A Call for Critically Rethinking and Reforming Data Analysis in Empirical Software Engineering

Matteo Esposito, Mikel Robredo, Murali Sridharan +3

Context: Empirical Software Engineering (ESE) drives innovation in SE through qualitative and quantitative studies. However, concerns about the correct application of empirical met…